Roger - I think that is the most genius idea I've seen of late.  A wonderful
researcher once put up one line of my family in The Old Blandford Cemetery:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vacpeter/cemetery/cogbill/cogbill.htm

Norfolk County's genealogy page also has listings of cemetery sites.

In a message dated 5/22/02 12:01:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Date:    Tue, 21 May 2002 09:12:20 -0400
> From:    "Roger L. Goodman" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Cemetery Photos
>
> Greetings, all!
>
>      With this weekend being Memorial Day, and several of you will be
> traveling to cemeteries, I would like to suggest that you take a digital
> camera with you, and take some photos of the tombstones in the cemeteries
> that you visit.  Small cemeteries can easily be covered by one person, but
> larger cemeteries would need several people to take photos.
>      Perhaps we need some coordination here, but mostly I think people
> could just go out and take some photos.  If coordination is needed, I
> would be willing to try to keep tabs on who's doing what, at least for
> Albemarle County; I don't know if I am ready to try to keep tabs on what
> everyone is doing in the whole state!  :)
>      This is just an idea I'm floating/proposing, since cemeteries usually
> look their best at Memorial Day, and it usually isn't too hot yet to be
> out.
>      There is at least one website posting photos of Virginia cemeteries
> (don't have the website info with me at the moment, but I can track it
> down), so there is somewhere to put all these photos once we gather them.
>      I personally am looking at the possibility of going down to North
> Garden or Scottsville to take photos, but will relenquish those sites if
> someone else desires to do them.
>      My camera gets about 400 VGA-size photos on each 32MB
> compact-flash(tm) memory card (I have two), so I should be able to get
> through one cemetery at least.  Batteries will be the thing to remember to
> take.  :)
>      If enough interest is generated, I will post a list of what
> cemeteries are scheduled to be covered, on Saturday or Sunday, so everyone
> will know what is going on by Monday.  If there is no interest, well, then
> I'll let this die, and continue covering cemeteries as I get time.
>      Sorry to be so long-winded, but I'm just throwing some thoughts onto
> the screen.  Roger    [log in to unmask]
>

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